IVO OF PARIS. - Capuchin thinker and polemicist, born in Paris c. 1590, died there in 1678. A lawyer in the Parisian courts, he entered the Order at the age of 30; ordained priest in 1632, he served several times as provincial definer and spent his life writing works.
V. ARDUINO; CAPPELLANI MAGGIORI; CAPUCHINS.
IVERSEL. - Ancient episcopal see in the province of Vercelli, in Piedmont. The first known bishop is St. Eulogius, present at the Synod of Milan in 451 (Mansi, VI, 143). The 5th and early 6th centuries are marked by several Christian sepulchral inscriptions, six of which bear consular dates: the oldest, from 440, commemorates a Basil, a merchant of Syrian origin; another recalls Bishop Innocent, who died at the age of 72 on March 29, 486. The sepulchral poem of the priest Silvius, preserved in the Palatine anthology, is probably from the 6th century; it is not possible to determine to which saints the "sanctorum pignora" mentioned by the bishops belonged. Ivrea belonged to the metropolitan see of Milan until 1515, when Leo X elevated Turin to metropolitan status. Given the strategic and political importance of its territory, the see of Ivrea had a very rich and eventful history, and its bishops were counted among the great feudal lords of the subalpine region. From the mid-10th to the early 12th century, the emperors of the Saxon and Franconian houses took care to appoint their trusted followers to the see.
The episcopal catalogue is fragmentary until the 10th century. Among the great bishops of Ivrea, only the following are remembered: Joseph (844-56), archchaplain to the Emperor; Warmond (v.), appointed by Otto I in 969, opponent of Arduin and restorer of art and culture in the subalpine lands (d. c. 1015); Henry (1029-59), present at the Council
